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"MR VERSATILITY" |
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:09 |
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Delme Herriman is a mixed race man from the North West of England, who, despite an inauspicious start in life, achieved fame and prominence as a professional international basketball player.  He has written this autobiography with his sister, Kirstie Herriman, as a thank you to his adoptive mother and stepfather and as encouragement to other young sportsmen and women.
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Book Review: Meeting the Needs of Multiethnic & Multicultural Children in Schools |
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Friday, 05 November 2010 21:29 |
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This book comes with a foreword from Maria P.P. Root whose work is familiar to many PIH members. In it she claims that the book ' delivers a road map pushing readers and educators to embark on a transformative journey rarely mapped in multicultural education and its training.' Whilst the book has a US slant, there is indeed plenty that will be of interest to parents, teachers and young people here in the UK.
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Book Review: The Axe Laid To The Root - The Story of Robert Wedderburn |
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Friday, 13 August 2010 21:34 |
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Robert Wedderburn was a writer, orator, publisher, agitator, and 'a notorious firebrand' of the 19th century who campaigned against slavery and for equality and justice for all. Born in Jamaica in 1762, to a black slave and her white Scottish owner, he was freed at birth as part of the sale of his mother. He grew up 'free' and when old enough came to England where he got involved with the Spenceans.
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Book Review: Dyslexia from a Cultural Perspective |
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Monday, 09 August 2010 15:49 |
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This is a well written and easy reading book, which I would highly recommend to parents, Senior Management Teams in all schools (with the SENCO (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator) being the obvious choice but NOT the only choice) and most importantly Local Governments where the ongoing battle for schools is to gain funding to support their dyslexic pupils; in many local governments dyslexia is, astonishingly, not considered to be a ‘special need’.
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Book Review : Tomorrow's Children |
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:04 |
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This book is a guide to raising biracial children with a positive attitude towards their identity. It stresses the importance of embracing and understanding all aspects of a child's heritage and is aimed at parents (including adoptive experience as an educator and also as a parent of biracial children.
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